Climate driver · Cross-cutting

Climate change

Change in the state of the climate that can be identified by changes in the mean and/or variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGI Glossary: Climate change

Synonyms

long-term climate trend, Global warming

Broader

Top concept of the scheme

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CDI_08 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CDI_08
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CDI_08)